Productivity
Thoughts and ideas on productivity, to-do lists and enhancing task management.
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Read once, act, or don’t
When you receive a message, practice reading it once and taking action, rather than “saving it for later”.
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Managing distributed teams using Slack
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in BusinessHere’s how I use Slack every day to effectively manage engineering teams.
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Creating and consuming- a pathway to clearing the mind
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in LifeThere is an interesting tension for me, between creating something new, and consuming something which exists. I find this in email (the emails I send, versus the emails I read), blog posts (those I write, versus those I read), and in many other areas such as todo list items, code pull requests, etc. The principle…
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Taking stock of our inboxes
We live in a very busy world. As small as we’re perceiving our world to be in many ways (eg: communicating across the globe in an instant, being able to keep track of friends and family regardless of their location, getting instant insight into the worlds of others, and sharing insights from within our own…
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Evaluating and optimising my time while learning
I’m someone who enjoys gathering as much information as possible on a topic, as I enjoy the context. Practically, this often translates to picking up a new podcast (for example) and starting right at the beginning (even if there are hundreds of episodes). I feel this helps to provide context for where the podcast began,…
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Acknowledging what we already know, when making decisions
When making decisions, I’ve found it can be quite easy to get into a “bikeshedding” scenario, where the deciding parties lose track of the actual decision to be made. This can be internal, or within a group. Something I’ve found particularly useful and interesting recently is to acknowledge what we already know and how we…